Racism in the United States has made its mark in American Literature. While the fight for progression and equality is an everlasting and ever-growing situation, it is clear to see in many pieces of culture and arts that America has not progressed as far as it claims. Historically, the United States has created an uneven balance of racial bias and racial injustice among its citizens. The novel,“To Kill A Mockingbird,” documents the history of the issue and is a looking glass for readers to make current world connections, “Just Mercy” actualizes modern racial injustice, and criminological statistics show us exactly how the fight for complete and total racial equality is not yet graspable reality.
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Just Mercy takes a very interesting perspective on discrimination “We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn’t pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.,” Just Mercy, provides a perspective from the inside, to show the core of what sort of harm racism can do to the population, this quote taken from a black man who while not totally innocent, was convicted far worse for a crime. He was provided injustice, and Stevenson gives us a peek into what the means. While, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” served for the outside perspective, Just mercy focuses on the internal clockwork of racism, by telling the stories of Jimmy Dill and many others like him, it is another example of literature and the use of storytelling to help understand something we may not have ever before. Once again teaching empathy, an important lesson in fighting
To start out with, its important to understand …show more content…
Just Mercy takes a very interesting perspective on discrimination “We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. I desperately wanted mercy for Jimmy Dill and would have done anything to create justice for him, but I couldn’t pretend that his struggle was disconnected from my own. The ways in which I have been hurt—and have hurt others—are different from the ways Jimmy Dill suffered and caused suffering. But our shared brokenness connected us.,” Just Mercy, provides a perspective from the inside, to show the core of what sort of harm racism can do to the population, this quote taken from a black man who while not totally innocent, was convicted far worse for a crime. He was provided injustice, and Stevenson gives us a peek into what the means. While, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” served for the outside perspective, Just mercy focuses on the internal clockwork of racism, by telling the stories of Jimmy Dill and many others like him, it is another example of literature and the use of storytelling to help understand something we may not have ever before. Once again teaching empathy, an important lesson in fighting